UK (local)

The travelogue of a cycling trip in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

The story of a cycling trip around England's Lake District: Bowness-on-Windermere, Patterdale, Bassenthwaite, Buttermere, Boot, Whitehaven, Boot to the coast and back Boot to Bowness-on-Windermere.

An excellent site with many good trail descriptions in Great Britain, with some excursions to mainland Europe and Africa

This site is for all Mountain Bikers who love the challenge of an Offroad Adventure. Offroad Adventures - Online is an online resource packed with a collection of full ride reports, routes guides (some including maps), preparation tips, equipment, images to inspire and practical advice.

To get the most from Offroad Adventures - Online you will need to spend time to read the many articles written by Real Mountain Bikers, the equipment reviews and the advice given by riders who have ridden epics in the past.

This site is intended to offer ideas for cycle trips in and around SE Scotland and NE England. The routes are not graded in any way but comments should give some idea of their nature. They are not meant to be prescriptive but are just suggestions - obviously you can adapt them to suit your own needs.

A collection of some 84 (as of October 2005) routes in the triangle Edinburgh-Carlisle-Newcastle. Click the number on the map to access the page for the relevant tour - you will get a detailed description and a map of the tour. A very fine job, John!

An UK bicycling magazine. Articles, forum, tests, workshop, routes, race calendar, race results, ads. The routes are especially interesting and include East Anglia, Northumberland, New Forest, Hampshire, Kent, Peak District, Hebridean Islands, West Cork in the Republic of Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, and others.

Journey planner, timetables, today's rail travel information, train operating companies, travel bureau links.

An UK bicycling magazine. Forum, bike tests, kit tests, ``grime time'' (articles about preparing for races, pedal repair, suspensions, etc.), sport, videos, ads, events.

Bike shops in Bath, links, magazines.

South Downs (North of Brighton);
Buckinghamshire/Chilterns;
Autumn in the Chilterns;
Isle of Wight;
Dorset;
Oxfordshire;
Weald (Kent);
North Downs (Kent);
Peak District (Southwest): May 2, 1999;
Peak District (North): May 3, 1999
And many more.

A collection of photographs and anecdotes from my father on cycling in the late 1930's and 1940's. Racing, touring, pass-storming, you name it, they did it - usually on fixed gear, and wearing corduroy shorts - ouch! No chamois leather for these boys.

Pancanal is the website for the annual Anniesland (Glasgow) to Ratho (Edinburgh) bike ride. It follows the Forth and Clyde canal to Falkirk then the Union Canal to Ratho.

This cycle is in memory of Robin Wilkie who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2005. All sponsorship raised from this cycle go directly to the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.

Find maps and guide books by title, town, and county.

The Tandems of York Society (TOYS) was formed in the Spring of 1996. ``Want to learn more about tandems or bicycling? Visit The TandemLink.com's The Learning Center for essential information, tandem information links and bicycle links on repair, maintenance, fitting, safe and effective cycling, and other miscellaneous cycling related web links.'' Also lists upcoming TOYS rides, newsletters, links, personal tandem sale ads.

Addiscombe Cycling Club is a friendly Croydon based club catering for racing and leisure cyclists of all disciplines. Formed in 1929 its members have excelled on the national and world stage ever since. Originally most members competed in time trialling and track racing although road racing and mountain biking have now become very popular. With club meetings every Wednesday and at least FIVE organized activities a week its members have an active social scene. Most members come from around the Surrey area but the club also has members further afield who keep in touch regularly through the club.

The East Midlands C-C A is a group of about 50 cycling clubs who get together to administer cyclo-cross in the East Midlands.

Sustrans is a civil engineering charity which designs and builds routes for cyclists, walkers and people with disabilities. Sustrans is promoting a 6,500-mile National Cycle Network for the United Kingdom which will link schools, houses, shops and workplaces with each other and with the countryside.

On June 21 2000 The first 5,000 miles of the National Cycle Network has been officially opened: see what Britons think of it, from BBC News.

Join the Wild Welsh Wheelers on the Web. Club news, trails, racing, forum, link.

Cycling in Croydon. Links to London Critical Mass, Urban 75, Rinky-Dink - the pedal powered sound system, and warious anti-war demos.

The Long Distance Cyclists' Association. Includes links to other Touring Clubs and Groups in UK.

O.C.D., the Ordre des Cols Durs in the UK is a society for cyclists who enjoy climbing and visiting the high places by bicycle, with the emphasis the Alps and Pyrenees in Europe but with an ever-widening field of interest which includes the mountainous areas in the UK and the rest of the world, such as the Rockies and the Himalayas.

We are the country's largest group of people on bikes. Our mission is to make cycling enjoyable, safe and welcoming for all. Also see the Central London CTC.

The Tandem Club was formed in the UK in 1971 primarily to provide otherwise unobtainable spare parts and technical advice on how to maintain the older machines. This is still an important function but since then the Club has developed along with the increased interest in tandems, extending the range of services and benefits it offers to its members, and currently the Club has a world wide membership of over 6,000 members.

The complete accommodation, tourism and route information guide. This site is designed to act as a resource centre for the excellent C2C cycle route which runs from Whitehaven, on the West Cumbrian coast, to Sunderland on the North East coast of England. Includes a page with links to plenty of Reports of C2C tours.